Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 551: Demographic Performance of Helicoverpa zea Populations on Dual and Triple-Gene Bt Cotton Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090551 Authors: Marcelo M. Rabelo Silvana V. Paula-Moraes Eliseu Jose G. Pereira Blair D. Siegfried Insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are valuable tools for pest management worldwide, contributing to the management of human disease insect vectors and phytophagous insect pests of agriculture and forestry. Here, we...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 552: Are Cyanotoxins the Only Toxic Compound Potentially Present in Microalgae Supplements? Results from a Study of Ecological and Non-Ecological Products Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090552 Authors: Elisabet Sánchez-Parra Soumia Boutarfa Marina Aboal Food supplements with microalgae are becoming increasingly abundant and can be easily found anywhere. The most popular products are based on cyanophytes, such as Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Arthrospira platensis...
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Urban Science, Vol. 4, Pages 40: Regional Densities of Cooperation: Are There Measurable Effects on Regional Development? Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci4030040 Authors: Christian Diller Guido Nischwitz Martin Kohl Patrick Chojnowski Almost three decades ago, a paradigm change in funding policies for rural regions became effective in Europe and Germany, involving a move towards cooperative, actor-oriented regional development. However, little research has been published...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 489: Discrepancies between Vaccine Documentation and Serologic Status for Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Hepatitis B in Internationally Adopted Children Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030489 Authors: Angela Bechini Sara Boccalini Ilaria Rancan Luisa Galli Beatrice Zanella Elena Chiappini Internationally Adopted Children (IAC) often show suboptimal immunisation coverage, but available data are discordant. Data at the first evaluation of 2073 IAC (median...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 488: Characterization of Inactivated Influenza Vaccines Used in the Russian National Immunization Program Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030488 Authors: Mikhail Tarasov Andrei Shanko Larisa Kordyukova Anton Katlinski Background: today’s standard quality control methods used to control the protein composition of inactivated influenza vaccines only take into account a few key reference components. They do not allow for thorough characterization...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 487: An Absence of Epstein–Barr Virus Reactivation and Associations with Disease Activity in People with Multiple Sclerosis Undergoing Therapeutic Hookworm Vaccination Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030487 Authors: Peter A. C. Maple Bruno Gran Radu Tanasescu David I. Pritchard Cris S. Constantinescu Background: Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection is strongly associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). Helminth infection can downregulate antiviral...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 486: Can Immunization of Hens Provide Oral-Based Therapeutics against COVID-19? Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030486 Authors: José M. Pérez de la Lastra Victoria Baca-González Patricia Asensio-Calavia Sergio González-Acosta Antonio Morales-delaNuez In the current worldwide pandemic situation caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the newest coronavirus disease (COVID-19), therapeutics and prophylactics are urgently...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 484: Characterization of the Maternally Derived Antibody Immunity against Rhdv-2 after Administration in Breeding Does of an Inactivated Vaccine Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030484 Authors: Massimiliano Baratelli Joan Molist-Badiola Alba Puigredon-Fontanet Mariam Pascual Oriol Boix Francesc Xavier Mora-Igual Michelle Woodward Antonio Lavazza Lorenzo Capucci Inactivated strain-specific vaccines have been successfully used to control rabbit...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 485: The Role of Microglia during West Nile Virus Infection of the Central Nervous System Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030485 Authors: Sarah Stonedahl Penny Clarke Kenneth L. Tyler Encephalitis resulting from viral infections is a major cause of hospitalization and death worldwide. West Nile Virus (WNV) is a substantial health concern as it is one of the leading causes of viral encephalitis in the United States today. WNV infiltrates the central nervous...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 121: Effects of Lactobacillus Fermentum Supplementation on Body Weight and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Expression in Campylobacter Jejuni-Challenged Chickens Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030121 Authors: Miroslava Šefcová Marco Larrea-Álvarez César Larrea-Álvarez Viera Revajová Viera Karaffová Jana Koščová Radomíra Nemcová David Ortega-Paredes Christian Vinueza-Burgos Mikuláš Levkut Róbert Herich Due to the interest...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 120: Predictive Value of Veterinary Student Application Data for Class Rank at End of Year 1 Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030120 Authors: Steven D. Holladay Robert M. Gogal Parkerson C. Moore R. Cary Tuckfield Brandy A. Burgess Scott A. Brown Student applications for admission to the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine include the following information: undergraduate grade point average (GPA), GPA in science...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 962: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA Detection Using Self-Sampling Devices in Women Undergoing Long Term Immunosuppressive Therapy Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090962 Authors: Wielgos Pietrzak Sikora Martirosian Suchonska Gozdowska Oldakowska-Jedynak Jabiry-Zieniewicz Durlik Rudnicka Wielgos Immunosuppression is a risk factor of persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, which might lead to development of (pre)malignant...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 960: The Virome of Acute Respiratory Diseases in Individuals at Risk of Zoonotic Infections Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090960 Authors: Tu Thi Kha Nguyen Hong Thi Thu Nguyen Ny Thi Han Nguyen Phuc My Tran Tam Thi Thanh Pham H. Rogier van Doorn Nghia Dang Trung Ho Huong Thao Dang Han An Duong Ha Thi Thu Luu Xutao Deng Guy Thwaites Eric Delwart Anna-Maija K. Virtala Olli Vapalahti Stephen Baker Tan Van Le The ongoing coronavirus...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 957: Fatal Outcome of Ilheus Virus in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Patient Diagnosed with Encephalitis Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090957 Authors: Bruno H. G. A. Milhim Cássia F. Estofolete Leonardo C. da Rocha Elisabete Liso Vânia M. S. Brienze Nikos Vasilakis Ana C. B. Terzian Maurício L. Nogueira Ilheus virus is an arbovirus with the potential for central nervous system involvement. Accurate diagnosis is a challenge due to similar clinical...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 959: Components and Architecture of the Rhabdovirus Ribonucleoprotein Complex Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090959 Authors: Christiane Riedel Alexandru A. Hennrich Karl-Klaus Conzelmann Rhabdoviruses, as single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses within the order Mononegavirales, are characterised by bullet-shaped or bacteroid particles that contain a helical ribonucleoprotein complex (RNP). Here, we review the components of the RNP and its higher-order structural...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 961: The Monoclonal Antibody Recognized the Open Reading Frame Protein in Porcine Circovirus Type 2-Infected Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090961 Authors: Ling-Chu Hung The purpose of this study in the context of the open reading frame 3 (ORF3) protein of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) was especially its location and its relation to the capsid protein and the apoptosis protein in PCV2-infected porcine peripheral blood mononuclear...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 958: A Model for the Production of Regulatory Grade Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Exposure Stocks: From Field Surveillance to Advanced Characterization of SFTSV Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090958 Authors: Unai Perez-Sautu Se Hun Gu Katie Caviness Dong Hyun Song Yu-Jin Kim Nicholas Di Paola Daesang Lee Terry A. Klein Joseph A. Chitty Elyse Nagle Heung-Chul Kim Sung-Tae Chong Brett Beitzel Daniel S. Reyes Courtney Finch Russ Byrum Kurt...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 955: Evaluation of the 50% Infectious Dose of Human Norovirus Cin-2 in Gnotobiotic Pigs: A Comparison of Classical and Contemporary Methods for Endpoint Estimation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090955 Authors: Ashwin K. Ramesh Viviana Parreño Philip J. Schmidt Shaohua Lei Weiming Zhong Xi Jiang Monica B. Emelko Lijuan Yuan Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are the leading causative agents of epidemic and sporadic acute gastroenteritis that affect people...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 956: Human Endogenous Retrovirus Expression Is Associated with Head and Neck Cancer and Differential Survival Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090956 Authors: Allison R. Kolbe Matthew L. Bendall Alexander T. Pearson Doru Paul Douglas F. Nixon Marcos Pérez-Losada Keith A. Crandall Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) have been implicated in a variety of human diseases including cancers. However, technical challenges in analyzing HERV sequence data have...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 954: One of the Triple Poly(A) Signals in the M112-113 Gene Is Important and Sufficient for Stabilizing the M112-113 mRNA and the Replication of Murine Cytomegalovirus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12090954 Authors: Ruth Cruz-cosme Najealicka Armstrong Qiyi Tang The M112-113 gene is the first early gene of the murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), and its expression is activated by the immediate-early 3 (IE3) protein during MCMV infection in permissive cells. At its 5′...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2442: Study of Groundwater Flow Properties in a Karst System by Coupled Analysis of Diverse Environmental Tracers and Discharge Dynamics Water doi: 10.3390/w12092442 Authors: Andrej Stroj Maja Briški Maja Oštrić Monitoring of various naturally present substances or physical properties of the water, commonly called environmental tracers, can provide valuable insight in characteristics of groundwater flow systems and intrinsic processes. Analysis of individual...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2441: Program Outcomes of Payments for Watershed Services in Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How to Evaluate to Improve Decision-Making and the Socio-Environmental Benefits Water doi: 10.3390/w12092441 Authors: Flávio Augusto Monteiro dos Santos Marcondes Geraldo Coelho-Junior Jéssica Chaves Cardoso Vanessa Maria Basso André Luis de Paula Marques Eliane Maria Ribeiro da Silva In 2014, the Paraíba do Sul River Basin Integration Committee (CEIVAP)...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2440: Sensitivity and Interdependency Analysis of the HBV Conceptual Model Parameters in a Semi-Arid Mountainous Watershed Water doi: 10.3390/w12092440 Authors: Hamza Ouatiki Abdelghani Boudhar Aziz Ouhinou Abdelaziz Beljadid Marc Leblanc Abdelghani Chehbouni Hydrological models, with different levels of complexity, have become inherent tools in water resource management. Conceptual models with low input data requirements are preferred for streamflow...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2438: Performance Study of an Integrated Solar Water Supply System for Isolated Agricultural Areas in Thailand: A Case-study of the Royal Initiative Project Water doi: 10.3390/w12092438 Authors: Imjai Thinsurat Ditthakit Wipulanusat Setkit Garcia This article presents a field-performance investigation on an Integrated Solar Water Supply System (SWSS) at two isolated agricultural areas in Thailand. The two case-study villages (Pongluek and Bangkloy)...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2439: Response of Clementine Mandarin to Water-Saving Strategies under Water Scarcity Conditions Water doi: 10.3390/w12092439 Authors: Mohamed El-Otmani Anouar Chouaibi Charif Azrof Lhoussaine Bouchaou Redouane Choukr-Allah Water scarcity is the most constraining factor for crop production, especially in arid and semi-arid areas of Mediterranean countries such as Morocco. Within these conditions, different water-saving strategies using deficit irrigation...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2437: Drinking Water Source Protection for Surface Water Abstractions: An Overview of the Group Water Scheme Sector in the Republic of Ireland Water doi: 10.3390/w12092437 Authors: Alec Rolston Suzanne Linnane Source protection is part of a multi-solution approach for the provision of safe drinking water. In the Republic of Ireland, community-led Group Water Schemes (GWS) provide treated drinking water to approximately 69,000 rural households. Between 2009 and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2436: Decision-Making of LID-BMPs for Adaptive Water Management at the Boise River Watershed in a Changing Global Environment Water doi: 10.3390/w12092436 Authors: Kim Ryu We conducted a study on water management at the Boise River Watershed in a changing global environment potentially induced by climate variability and urbanization. Environmental ‘hotspots’ associated with water quality and quantity were first identified to select suitable...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2435: Ice Regime of the Kozłowa Góra Reservoir (Southern Poland) as an Indicator of Changes of the Thermal Conditions of Ambient Air Water doi: 10.3390/w12092435 Authors: Maksymilian Solarski Mariusz Rzętała Ice phenomena are construed as the occurrence of ice in water irrespective of its structure, form, and duration. One of the most frequently discussed research problems is the possibility of using long-term ice phenology as an indicator of changes of the thermal...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2434: Modelling Study of Transport Time Scales for a Hyper-Tidal Estuary Water doi: 10.3390/w12092434 Authors: Guanghai Gao Junqiang Xia Roger A. Falconer Yingying Wang This paper presents a study of two transport timescales (TTS), i.e., the residence time and exposure time, of a hyper-tidal estuary using a widely used numerical model. The numerical model was calibrated against field measured data for various tidal conditions. The model simulated current...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2433: Is Clustering Time-Series Water Depth Useful? An Exploratory Study for Flooding Detection in Urban Drainage Systems Water doi: 10.3390/w12092433 Authors: Li Hassan Brewer Sitzenfrei As sensor measurements emerge in urban water systems, data-driven unsupervised machine learning algorithms have drawn tremendous interest in event detection and hydraulic water level and flow prediction recently. However, most of them are applied in water distribution...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2432: Performance of Anaerobic Digestion of Acidified Palm Oil Mill Effluent under Various Organic Loading Rates and Temperatures Water doi: 10.3390/w12092432 Authors: Muhammad Arif Fikri Hamzah Peer Mohamed Abdul Safa Senan Mahmod Azratul Madihah Azahar Jamaliah Md. Jahim This study compared the performance of thermophilic and mesophilic digesters of an anaerobic digestion system from palm oil mill effluent (POME), in which temperature is a key parameter...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2429: The Ecological Importance of Amphipod–Parasite Associations for Aquatic Ecosystems Water doi: 10.3390/w12092429 Authors: Luisa Giari Elisa Anna Fano Giuseppe Castaldelli Daniel Grabner Bernd Sures Amphipods are a key component of aquatic ecosystems due to their distribution, abundance and ecological role. They also serve as hosts for many micro- and macro-parasites. The importance of parasites and the necessity to include them in ecological studies...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2431: Improved Cyanobacteria Removal from Harmful Algae Blooms by Two-Cycle, Low-Frequency, Low-Density, and Short-Duration Ultrasonic Radiation Water doi: 10.3390/w12092431 Authors: Haocai Huang Gang Wu Chaowu Sheng Jiannan Wu Danhua Li Hangzhou Wang Harmful algae blooms (HAB) in eutrophic lakes and rivers have become serious water quality problems that are difficult to eliminate using common methods. Previous research has demonstrated that powerful...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2430: Removal of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in a Heterogeneous Fenton Like Oxidation System Using Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron as a Catalyst Water doi: 10.3390/w12092430 Authors: Tahir Haneef Muhammad Raza Ul Mustafa Kashif Rasool Yeek Chia Ho Shamsul Rahman Mohamed Kutty Oil and gas effluents contains highly toxic and harmful organic pollutants. Therefore, it is necessary to eliminate and/or reduced the concertation of organic pollutants to a technologically...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2428: Evaluation of the Hydraulic Performance of a Rear-Parapet Vertical Breakwater under Regular Waves through Hydraulic Experiments Water doi: 10.3390/w12092428 Authors: Byeong Wook Lee Woo-Sun Park Climate change has resulted in increased intensity and frequency of typhoons and storm surges. Accordingly, attention has been paid to securing the breakwater’s stability to protect the safety of the port. Herein, hydraulic model experiments were conducted...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2427: River Flow Estimation Using Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Techniques
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2427: River Flow Estimation Using Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Techniques Water doi: 10.3390/w12092427 Authors: Fatih Üneş Mustafa Demirci Martina Zelenakova Mustafa Çalışıcı Bestami Taşar František Vranay Yunus Ziya Kaya Accurate determination of river flows and variations is used for the efficient use of water resources, the planning of construction of water structures, and preventing flood disasters. However, accurate flow prediction is...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2426: Hydrometeorological and Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Stream Flooding in Southeast Mediterranean: The Case of Rafina Catchment (Attica, Greece) Water doi: 10.3390/w12092426 Authors: Christos Giannaros Vassiliki Kotroni Konstantinos Lagouvardos Christina Oikonomou Haris Haralambous Katerina Papagiannaki The CyFFORS (Cyprus Flood Forecasting System) project aims at increasing flood risk awareness and promoting preparedness against flooding...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2425: Numerical and Physical Analysis on the Response of a Dam’s Radial Gate to Extreme Loading Performance Water doi: 10.3390/w12092425 Authors: Faridmehr Nejad Baghban Ghorbani Maintaining the reservoir safety of large dams has considerable importance for the public where they are constructed in heavily populated and industrialized areas. The extreme hydrodynamic force caused by ground acceleration, cavitation damage, and vibration are among concerns...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 2424: Biodiversity and Habitat Assessment of Coastal Benthic Communities in a Sub-Arctic Industrial Harbor Area Water doi: 10.3390/w12092424 Authors: Elliot Dreujou Christopher W McKindsey Cindy Grant Lisa Tréau de Coeli Richard St-Louis Philippe Archambault Coastal ecosystems face increasing anthropogenic pressures worldwide and their management requires a solid assessment and understanding of the cumulative impacts from human activities. This study...
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